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Publication of ‘Echoes of Paradise: Milton’s Epic and the Art of Response’, edited by Dr Ned Allen
A new creative-critical book entitled Echoes of Paradise: Milton’s Epic and the Art of Response has been published in a limited edition. In a series of essays – on satire, children’s fantasy fiction, slave narrative, painting, and radio drama – the book tells some of the stories of Paradise Lost‘s enduring influence; but the book […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Michael D. Hurley gives a lecture in Oxford at a conference on “Jesuits and the Natural World”
Pembroke College, Oxford, and Campion Hall on 23-24 March 2023 Please see here for conference webpages, including programme, abstracts, and speaker biographies The link to register is here Dr Jan Graffius, who is leading the conference’s pop-up exhibition, is giving a free public lecture, Óscar Romero: The Witness of Relics, on Friday 24 March at 17.30, […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Clair Wills gives an LRB Winter Lecture on ‘How to Plot an Abortion’, Friday 24 February
London Review Bookshop 2023 Winter Lectures at Conway Hall (London) and online Clair Wills: How to Plot an Abortion Friday 24 February, 7pm-8.30pm Following the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and other challenges to reproductive rights, Clair Wills considers the stories we tell about abortion – in fiction, film, court rulings […]
Continue ReadingCambridge Saffron presents the findings of a year-long project to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university
The University Library has just launched an online exhibition called Cambridge Saffron, the product of a year-long project funded by the University’s Research and Collections Programme to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university. Kasia Boddy & Bonnie Lander Johnson, of the English Faculty, & Alice […]
Continue ReadingCall for Participants for ‘Paper and Poetry: Invention Through Craft’, deadline 31 March 2023
The symposium, which will take place 21-22 September 2023 at The Paper Foundation in Burneside, Cumbria, will bring together academics in any field who work on paper, with creative writers whose work is inflected by and responds to the materiality of their writing surfaces. Deadline to apply is Friday 31st March. Full details can be found here.
Continue ReadingTransplantations: Seeds, Plants and Gardens in the Contemporary Experience of Migration, Monday 23 January, 4-6pm, Faculty of English
TRANSPLANTATIONS: Seeds, Plants and Gardens in the Contemporary Experience of Migration Monday 23 January 4-6pm GR06/07 Ground floor English Faculty 9 West Road Cambridge Jennie Spears from the Lemon Tree Trust https://lemontreetrust.org/about/ and Adam Alexander the ‘Seed Detective’ https://theseeddetective.co.uk/my-book/ talk about their work protecting and propagating the stability of plants and people amid the global turbulence of […]
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Jen Pollard for winning a 2022 Cambridge University Professional Services Award
Jen Pollard, the Faculty of English Computer Officer, won her award in Category 2: Innovating and Improving. The Awards recognise and celebrate the very best work across all professional service areas in the University and the 2022 winners were announced at a ceremony at the Fitzwilliam Museum on 12 December. Link to the list of […]
Continue ReadingDr Rebecca Barr receives a Global Humanities Network Mobility Award to collaborate with the American University in Beirut
The project seeks to investigate satire as ‘world literature’, as texts which circulate internationally, changing and acquiring meanings beyond those found in their initial cultural and historical context. The award will fund a preliminary visit to Beirut in Spring 2023. As part of that visit, Dr Barr will give a research seminar on William Hogarth […]
Continue ReadingDr Diarmuid Hester’s documentary ‘Deeds and Words’ airs on BBC Radio 3
A feature documentary on art and activism in the suffrage movement by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Dr Hester’s programme focuses on the work of Edith Craig, theatre producer, suffragette, and daughter of Ellen Terry, star of the Victorian stage. He travels to Smallhythe Place, where Craig lived with her […]
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